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The titular character is a transgender woman played by Welch. After her successful gender-reassignment surgery, Myra heads out to Hollywood to claim her uncle's estate.

Myra Breckinbridge contains examples of:

All Just a Dream: It's strongly suggested through the scenes at the start and at the end with Myron in the hospital that Myra's lifecomplete with Myron's own sporadic pop-ups as her alter ego, the last of which was him running her over only for her to die as himselfwas all a dream of Myron's prior to a sex change surgery that presumably didn't take. This is honestly the least unfortunate and terrifying interpretation of the story, and Rex Reed wouldn't play the part otherwise.

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Ambiguously Bi: Part of Myra's plan for world domination involves seducing people of all genders in order to break down walls between the sexes.

And You Were There: Part of the All Just A Dream ending above. Myron awakes after his accident to find that his alter-ego Myra was inspired by a magazine cover of the real Raquel Welch and that Mary Ann is his nurse.

Black Comedy Rape: In arguably the film's most (in)famous scene, Myra rapes Rusty with a strap-on, set to a psychedelic montage of old movie clips and one-liners.

Blackmail: Myra blackmails Rusty into letting her "examine" him. She also blackmails Uncle Buck into giving her the job in the first place by pretending Myron is her late husband.

Stock Footage: Old movie clips appear often, many times for comedy's sake. Many of the depicted people complained and sued about this, and the White House downright asked for the removal of a Shirley Temple clip given she was now an U.S. embassador.

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